From ab569dfab879a29100d5319597aa7116d772e676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jimmy Berry <jberry@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 01:17:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] metrics: call ET.clear() to release unneeded memory used by
 search result.

Roughly 1800MB per 10,000 requests saved.
---
 metrics.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/metrics.py b/metrics.py
index d87f29aa..ba9cf9e3 100755
--- a/metrics.py
+++ b/metrics.py
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ def search(apiurl, queries=None, **kwargs):
             # Stop paging once the expected number of items has been returned.
             break
 
+        # Release memory as otherwise ET seems to hold onto it.
+        collection.clear()
         queries['request']['offset'] += queries['request']['limit']
 
     _requests = requests